Hiya, i fished out an old email of a 3rd cousin of mine who has done some solid research and this is email he typed to me - can anyone find any parts where their own lines may fall into places?
Dear Bruce,
I remember my grandfather, David Kirkcaldy telling me of his brother who had left for Africa and had been an officer in the army and the story about kenya. later, researching recors on internet disproved any association with Nairobi. You story got me thinking again. However, I became a bit sceptical when some birth details may not have fitted. I remember my grandfather telling me about how his brother came back to Scotland for the burial of their father (Robert Kirkcaldy), the death being 20. february 1918. I
The facts are that on the baptism records of my grandfather (David Kirkcaldy born in Mipplort, Bue on 4th may 1899), his father Robert Kirkcaldy was not present (being in Glasgow). The uncle, Robert HUNTER was the witness present at that baptism. Robert Kirkcaldy his father had married Catherine Hunter at Old Mill Road, Uddingston on 20th February 1894. Robert Kirkcaldy had been born on 22 .12.1864 at Duchally Farm and was the son of an overseer David Kirkcaldy (married to Isabel Kirkcaldy on 31.12.1860). My grandfather David had many half sisters and brothers, but only one fullb-blooded brother, Robert Kirkcaldy (child of Robert Kirkcaldy and catherine Hunter, the adughter of a merchant seaman and herself a confectioner). That brother Robert Kirkcaldy had been born on 8th february 1897 in West George Street, Glasgow. Since their mother (Catherine "Hunter" Kirkcaldy)had died 3 years after his birth (six months after my grandfathers birth in 1899, and judging from the interest of the uncle Charles Hunter, it COULD be that the uncle left with the eldest son in 1898 for Africa. But then In June 1898 Robert your direct relative would have had to be an iunfant of some 1-2 years of age? Is that likely? He was having children judging by your comments from 1924-1929 (I think you did an error in tyoing Robert Charles birthdate as March 1824 and meant 1924?). The key to all this mystery would be if the relative Robert Hunter Kirkcaldy who left for Africa was born on 8.02.1897 in Glasgow. Does that fit?
